Not OT I hope. I have an old AOL Photocam Plus camera that seems to work quite well. It has a USB connector to facilitate picture uploads to PC USB (in my case XP SP3). Problem is - it did not work because that process requires that the pictures being transferred seem to need to be done from the...

I have an XFX HD 4770 and am considering going to crossfire with another 4770. Do I need to get exactly the same model for the second card?

I'd like to buy a barebones (PSU, CPU, single Disk, graphics card, etc), for a linux box. Can someone suggest a good place to buy good HW?

The subject pretty much says it all. I see many of the new TVs are WIFI enabled to receive signals from (I would assume) a computer. I have a home WIFI setup with I5 laptop so sending cable TV signals via WIFI to be recorded on the laptop seems like it ought to be doable. The idea is to avoid...

How to remove on/off button and troubleshoot or replace. Currently it sticks when pushed in, it would sometimes pop back to regular "on" postion and power up and process..now it will power up but won't processs, sometimes get the error screen that that starts the countdown to start in normal mode...

I am used to building my own machines, but for financial reasons I found it cheaper to buy a Dell Inspiron 570 pc. Things like memory slots and expansion slots are easy to figure out. But what about some of the other connectors and stuff on the motherboard? Does anybody know where I can access...

I have been using a IOGEAR DVI 4-port 'KVMP switch' for a while now. It has an irritating problem, and I am wondering if it is defective, if anyone has similar trouble, or is it just the nature of the beast. Three desktops (All XP SP3), use the following DVI video cards: 1) RADEON X300 SE 128MB...

Years (about 30) ago I remember rigging a wire to run from my phone line to a microphone jack. One wire went direct and the other had a capacitor and a resistor in series with it. I had to experiment getting the right resistance and capacitence but I finally got it right. At the time I was...

I'm finally getting to the end of a 2-lb spool of 60/40 0.05" (18 gauge?) rosin core solder I bought from Radio Shack years ago. This time around, I'm considering: * 63/37 * 0.032 (21 gauge?) * Water-soluble rosin core Frankly, I'm enough of a hedonist that I'm happy to use as much lead as...

On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 08:11:24 +0000, legendmicro wrote: Samsung has been in the electronics industry for over 70 years and has been a market leader in launching innovative latest technology products. Samsung Notebooks are one state of the art product...

I'm looking for an affordable/budget motherboard for a core i5 2500k system. I am interested in opinions/alternatives/pointers/pitfalls from an overclocking point of view. I need on-board firewire, 4 RAM slots and good overclocking features. I have a Radeon HD 4770 graphics already so I dont...

http://malverne-westhempstead.patch.com/articles/police-seeking-info-on-west-hempstead-bank-robber Nassau County Police are still searching for the man who robbed the Roslyn Savings Bank on Hempstead Turnpike in West Hempstead on Nov. 14. According to police, just eight days later on Nov. 22,...

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=234023469990725&set=a.192145257511880.49087.100001492212690&type=1&theater my computer recently started working slow and my gpu is heating up quickly i opened the case and there was alot of dust...

Intel Core duo E4500 2.2G Asus P5GC MX/GBL--2G RAM running XP sp2 Reliable old machine but recently the cursor would just freeze randomly. During the freeze I notice that the HD spins continuously. After a few seconds everything goes back to normal. (Just found out that when it freezes it is not...

is it safe to use small 2.5" external USB 2.0 hard drives in continuous mode? As it often requires 2-3 hours to backup into HDD a vaste quantity of small files, so disk read-write head constantly spinning.

I have inherited an old Linksys WRT54G broadband wireless-g router that only has CAT5 connections. Can I use it by connecting its cat5 'internet' port to my wall coax? How? Is there a simple and cheap adapter? Google shows some pretty complicated/expensive ones I think. Thanks Frederick

Compaq 8510p with Vista business. Recenly it shows a BSOD on shutdown. The Mem dump says "no more system PTEs" caused by ntkrnlpa.exe. This also happens in safe mode. I changed the Registry value of SystemPages to maximum. Still no Good. If I reduce the RAM to only 1G, it shuts down OK !! Once...

Hi, I've been asked to install a crypted hard disk drive on a Windows computer. I thought about an internal Sata HDD or an external HDD (USB or esata). So, do you think it will make the computer slower ? Any advice on what hardware to choose ? Thanks, GB

I see USB-PS2 adapters for sale that claim to work for either USB keyboards or USB mice. Should any adapter for one device also work for the other, or is there something special about these? -- St. Paul, MN

I've got three devices that all set their time by WWV at Fort Collins. "Atomic Clocks". One is a clock, one a watch, and the other one a weather station. I call it Boulder Damn Time. This morning when I got up all three of them had advanced an hour for Daylight Savings Time. By two o'clock this...